I just read that Ricardo Montalban saw this movie when he was 15. He carried a picture around with him afterwards of Georgiana Young, Loretta's sister. Later, they married, and she was his wife for 64 years until she died in 2007. I searched for the movie and here it is! I had to see the movie that he saw!
Not that it matters much but Ricardo Montalban was born in 1920 and Georgiana Young in 1923. The movie was made in 1939, which would have made Ricardo 19 at the time and Georgiana, 16, but it's a beautiful love story nevertheless. They married in 1944.
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I love the oldies ....bring back so many cozy Saturday afternoon together with,beautiful mum and dad We would watch our black and white movies. Over a lovely hot chocolate . I miss you mum and dad . I shall see you both soon . In paradise .... 🌹🌹🌹🌹🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams
Very Good Movie. His invention was so Huge and has had a profound Impact on Society! The Phone of My Childhood was the Rotary Dial Telephone, and to think now We all carry them in our Pockets!
You know Mr. Bell did something important and marvelous the world celebrated him with this movie did Thomas Edison invent motion picture? If he did I know he should have a film too. Mr. Bell was an amazing person that went through so much that made people have an easier future and something to look forward to spend some of their money on, their phone bill.
@@cedricsmith8188 I'm not so sure Thomas Edison was a decent person. I hear too many bad stories, so I do not really know anymore. I doubt that he was the inventor of the motion picture, I believe that was a Frenchman.
One of my favorite movies. I recorded this on VHS years ago. So glad to find and get to see this again. Thanks so very much for posting this move, sure means a lot for me. Brings back many memories with my father and myself watching this.
40:42 - 41:53 is such an amazing moment. First his wife pretty much forces Bell to not give up on what he has worked so hard for (pretty much the reason we were able to end up talking to eachother on the phone), then its just a golden comedic moment when Henry Fonda (Watson) leads the mother towards the window, and he keeps tapping her on the shoulder to point to stuff out the window in order to distract her from them kissing. I loved how she keeps turning around but Watson keeps tapping her shoulder. It's just such a priceless moment, I laughed more than I do in many full length comedies these days...and this is just a biographical story, not a comedy in the slightest bit, yet it worked so well! Also it shows how strong his wife's love is for his dreams. She wasn't selfish saying "oh give it up, we'll still love eachother" she threatens to not get married unless he continues what he is passionate about. Almost makes my eyes water to be honest, just thinking of it.
In the late 30s and 40s the slang word for the telephone was Ameche .. I get you on the Ameche as a tribute to Don for people tied him so close to Bell
Ball of Fire had a scene about that slang name for a telephone. His birth name was Amici. Interesting that he found a way to have people pronounce his real name phonetically. A wonderful actor.
I visited his estate & museum in Breton Island Nova Scotia few years back, I only knew about the telephone, but he was an inventor of lots of things, but only his telephone was famous.. He was a very inventive person.
@Lew Rodd Oh my goodness we know that oh my gosh people are so nitpicky it was an amazing movie start the first one I seen about at least until Alexander Graham Bell and Watson
@Lew Rodd I don’t care if it was and I don’t know if it was because I didn’t live then nobody knows what are real history really yes there were native Americans black Americans that invented things and white people took their credit so we don’t even know who really did anything because nobody’s old enough to have lived at that time the history in school sure is not real, and if you believe it is I have some oceanfront property in Arizona where my son lives that he will sell you cheap
Absolutely wonderful esp since true story, which r the best. It's getting a history lesson. What a fantastic dynamic cast: Don Amiche, Henry Fonda, Loretta Young, Spring Byington. A real pleasure❤
Good quality movies like this just are not, and cannot be made like this anymore, mainly because our society has become so morally corrupted, glad we have movies like this to go back to.
Ahoy , ahoy , so where comes the "hello" what the whole world uses nowadays ? Its came from the Hungarian language , from an inventor Puskás Tivadar , he invented the telephone center, he while talking with the English said in telephone " hallom , hallom" witch means " i hear it - i hear it" , after that the whole world speaking in telephone starts to say - hello
" vfed" , It wasn't all beautiful, they had poverty. exhaustion, financial worries , but the way they persevered , and the way it turned out , you could call beautiful ! We could say the telegraph , then the telephone were the start of an amazing era of ever-faster communication. of which me tippetty- tapping on a "tablet " is a tiny, but much valued part . Messages used to take days and weeks ! And post was apparently very expensive... ( "Er "...the price in U.K. keeps rising, such that ordinary folk hesitate to send a letter now ! 🤔 I think many use "texting " as part of their phone deals.) 📞☎️😊Liked this film very much. Very well done . 😊📞📽️ Greetings from England.😊🇬🇧. 🇬🇧😊📞🌈💙🇬🇧
I realize that the term "deaf and dumb" was a common reference to people who lacked hearing and language skills back then, but deafness was not in any way related to intelligence. I have two cousins, siblings, who have been deaf since birth and they both work and have families.
A highly polished Hollywood biopic. Excellent cast too. Don Ameche, Loretta Young, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Spring Byington & Gene Lockhart. Loretta Young's sisters are played by her real life sisters, Sally Blane (Elizabeth Young), Polly Ann Young & Georgiana Young. Haven't seen this in many years. Fun to see again.
Very good movie indeed. I work in telephone department and I would urge all my colleagues to watch this beautiful movie. Don Ameche , Loretta Young are excellent here
Maybe life had different struggles in those days. For example, vaccines against diseases such as rabies hadn't been invented, which meant that anyone who got bitten by a rabid animal, was destined to die within a few months.
I am afraid I might be wrong. I mean, maybe rabies vaccine had been invented. But I mean, the development of infrastructure & the advancements in technology and medicine hadn't been much, in those days, so life must have been tougher.
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Thank you, thank you, Thank You for providing this wonderful movie. Not only is it great in its own right, but offers the only opportunity to see the four Young sisters acting together in a movie. How lovely they are! The upload is s so clear in picture and sound. A real treasure!!!
They are so beautiful, I always thought Loretta Young was so beautiful and she had a wonderful smile. Have you seen her in The Farmer’s Daughter? Another great movie, if you haven’t seen it you will love it!
As sad as it is to say this, I just got done watching Don Ameche in Trading Places, and I Googled Don Ameche to see when he passed because I always enjoyed his movies when I stumbled upon his filmography and I saw this movie. To be honest I just wanted to see Don Ameche as a young man, as all of the movies I've ever seen him in he was older. Rest in peace Don Ameche. You've left the entire world with a legacy of great movies for all of us to remember you by.
Cosmopolitan Productions, the company that produced this movie, was owned by William Randolph Hearst who desired to break out into the business of making movies. The Cosmopolitan Magazine belonged to his publishing franchise and took it's name from the production co. (per Wikipedia)
I always find myself always going back in time to the oldies ...Mary Tyler Moore ...Jackie Gleason ...Carol Burnett and old movies during this Pandemic ....wow ...have times changed and not for the better ...very tense and hurtful and hateful times we are in ...I pray we get thru this
Nice to see; a really enjoyable film with a good script and proper professional actors doing their best for the art, unlike modern shallow films full of special effects to cover the so called actors "Look at ME" performances! Thank you for sharing it a very enjoyable ninety minutes even if the validity of the inventors claim is questioned now. As shown, before the Phone it took a man 4hrs walking in the snow to deliver a simple message thats something not often thought of these days, sometimes it takes a good film to remind us of how much we now have, than you Frankie Burton.
+Ping Pong Yes, we take phones and TV for granted. We cannot imagine a world with out them. My very first Memory is watching the TV News, with some man talking about "Israel, Egypt and Syria". I was so small, my feet did not touch the floor. It must have been when I was 2 years old in October 1956, when Israel, France and Britain invaded Egypt. And our children will never know a world without computers and the Internet. In 1973, my Father was a Real Estate Broker selling a house in Elmhurst, Queens, New York City. He was told it belong to a man who died, named H.W. O'Neil. Supposedly, O'Neil invented the Dial Tone for the telephone in 1910. But I was never able to confirm that. Before the Dial Tone, you had to call the Operator to place a call. They could not hire enough Operators. The Dial Tone allowed every phone to be its own Telephone Exchange. O'Neil's nearest relative was his Son, a Dentist in Westchester, who had no time or desire to go through his Dad's house. He said we could go through the house and that "anything in the house was ours", just sell the house and send him the money. It was amazing what we found in that house! We found a wooden telephone and the cord was covered in cloth, not rubber! There was a sword in a holder, with French writing inscribed on it and dated 1799! And a long rifle with the date 1861 ! We found textbooks from the U.S. Naval Academy dated 1875! And a tiny notebook, about 4 inches long and one inch wide. It had O'Neil's name in it and electrical diagrams dated 1908! There were all kinds of diagrams for generators, motors and other things. (The phone numbers in the notebook only had 5 digits in them!) There was a Boy Scout Diary from 1910 and the Aviation Merit Badge showed a picture of the Wright Brothers' Airplane, The Flyer I, from 1903! We found 2 Stradivarious Violins with Latin Writing on the inside and dated in 1609, if memory serves! I really don't know what ever happened to them or if they were real or not! There was what appeared to be a Science Text book, copyright 1930, entitled "The Nature of the Universe and of Man". The Book said that "the Universe consists of the Milky Way Galaxy and its Nebulae". The Book was saying that there was only ONE Galaxy (our own) in the Universe and that Andromeda was merely a "Nebula" in our Galaxy! Today, we know that Andromeda is 2 million light-years away and is a separate Galaxy all its own. And that those 2 Galaxies are just 2 of some 200 BILLION known Galaxies in the Universe! 1930 was the year that Edwin Hubble proved that Andromeda was a separate Galxy but I suppose that took awhile to appear in textbooks!
If there's one inventor I"d want brought back to life is this man, Alexander Graham Bell, to see and experience for himself the marvel his discovery has become...🌹
@Augustus Antonius ok I read this book , a newer book about 10 years ago that said , Elisha Gray invented the telephone . Bell was a linguist and for some reason , a inventor ? He was working on inventing sign language for deaf people . He also designed a telegraph system whereby you could send more than one message over the same line . At the time , you could only send one message at a time so that’s why there were so many Telegraph lines . Now Bells father in law managed to swipe grays patent application on a Friday and I guess he copied the part with the telephone diagram and inserted it into Bells application . The records of Elisha Gray were at Oberlin college but I think they disappeared .
He says on the witness stand that he is American "by choice" but like the average mind numb human you failed to pay any attention to the verbiage being used by anyone in the movie.
@Thomas Bailey It's good to know that people have a taste for such movies about innovation, initiative and perseverance. I find such real stories fascinating. Just curious, are you into engineering or technology, by profession?
I remember relatives from that era many many years ago. They were definitely more respectful, civil and gently spoken. And what is more importantly it was the standard for good behaviour and understood as the ideal even if everyone couldn't live up to it. The lack of courtesy and manners, and loss of a love for goodness, is an indication of the degradation of a society to a very low level as we see today. Why? The 'ideal' has become rude, crude, lewd and self-serving or PHONY 'nice' to get one's way, make a buck, etc. Virtuousness as exhibited by Mabel and most other characters in this film was understood by everyone to be the right thing and was desired. We are losing goodness, true morals (not political signalling) and the ability to make moral decisions. Strong traditional family values value honour and integrity over money. This is a good place to start. Every individual can choose to form their life around goodness and choose a partner to build a family around that goodness. Even if you don't see these things reflected in the society around you. It takes strength and self-denial to be good.
Have you noticed that every great man ends up in court at the end of the movie, (and life)? The court speech by Bell---is fantastic. Understand every word--and you will understand our demise because we ignore those words, (in school especially). The greatness speaks at min 1:31:30 This is the kind of speech that saves mankind from communism.
My mother became deaf starting in her thirties. As time went on she used hearing aids that went from large and cumbersome to very small. When she died in 1995 she was completely deaf but was able to hear with 2 aids. She read lips and detected what we teenagers said when we wer acting up. She also would "switch off"when my dad ranted. I live in Nova Scotia Canada, I urge visitors to go to The Alexander Graham Bell museum in Baddeck which is on Cape Breton island part of our province. He and his family lived out their life there. He continued to invent and made significant contributions to aviation. Most notably, despite his inventions, he helped people learn to communicate including Dr Helen Keller. Imagine having no sight and no hearing. I also would love it if he could see how his inventions have evolved.
Definitely would be fun to see him see how his inventions evolved! Would love to visit & explore the area & museum! Nova Scotia is some place I have always wanted to visit! Being about 100 miles below BC, I haven't made it that far east. Lol This movie has been a favorite since I saw it a number of years ago! Love the true stories! So much richer & deeper than any fairy tale, in my humble opinion! Many that depict real history are the real treasures of cinema! My aunt become deaf in her early 20s, I can barely remember when she could hear! She ended up trying the colloquial ear plants! Ended up with many infections & many health problems as a result, but she enjoyed what hearing it did bring back! We mostly communicate in email these days! Her child hood sweetheart & her communicate well! ❤ Married 50 yrs
He would be disappointed with the "smart phone" once he saw how much time it consumes from people, especially children. It seems every ten year old must have their own phone now. Parents use the excuse of safety to hand them out tho children.
@@pabloperez4063, I love old films myself. And films taking place in the late 1800s, early 1900s really show how much more of a simple world it was back then. I've wondered a couple of times when seeing Charlie Chaplin films about the 1910s when seeing how everyone in his films were always punching everyone out, fighting, knocking each other down. I'd wondered if people were always really like that in the late 1800s, early 1900s. But, I realized that was just all slapstick made up for humor and comedy purposes in Chaplin's films. People in the early 1900s were not running around punching each other out like that, people were in reality quite a bit more civilized and had better values than they do today. They were alot more formal, both in dress and etiquette. It's like watching shoot 'em up chase movies from more modern times and then thinking that the real world has people doing that all over the place. They don't, but with films both old and more modern, they embellish all that into them for entertainment purposes.
Wonderful schmaltzy old movie which is no doubt bunkum historically but really entertaining just the same. Its one of a series of science biography movies that the Big Studios churned out after the phenomenal success of Warner`s` Story of Louis Pasteur`.So MGM gave us `Edison` and 20th Fox came up with this one starring its two biggest stars - Fonda and Ameche.
This is what I enjoy watching . The spirit of innovation, the joy of discovery , accidental or otherwise. Medical , engineering, electrical, commerce....
I like this movie very much. Don Amerche's best and a good showcase for Henry Fonda who made several significant movies in 1939, as a lead actor. Charles Coburn and Loretta Young stand out.
I just love such bio pics., Great cast wonderful performances by all. Costume, and set superb. If you have a dream never give up your pursuit to give birth to it because it may just benefit many people.
The trial depicted in this film shows quite well what wretched, deplorable, soulless human beings most attorneys are. My low opinion of the profession is not some flippant remark, but is based on a career spent amongst such people, most of whom think nothing of destroying lives for the almighty dollar. Once you find out first year law school is when students are taught that truth itself is not important in any court of law, you've tasted a small slice of fetid putrefaction from the molding, rotting, decomposing corpse that is the American legal system. PS: *#SaveLivesSmokePutin*
@@grouchomarx4 No, they really were sisters in actual life. Loretta Young, Sally Blane, Polly Ann Young, and Georgiana Young were all siblings. Their mom was Gladys Belzer.
There is 327 comments to this film. I did not read everyone. This gives us history. History that are children should be taught in schools. Not the history they are being taught.
Mabel is certainly an angel, this entire story is more potent than any fairy tale ever "told". The fact that a girl who became deaf would later, ironically lead to the greatest influence of a man who would introduce the world to the telephone. Which means that "love" is the reason we can call eachother on a phone today and tell eachother "I Love You", something that Alexander always wanted to tell Mabel. It's actually so romantic that it's overwhelming.
WOW, I never b4 realized what a Classic Beauty Loretta Young was! Hadn't seen much of her work. Barbara Stanwyck my Fav. Female star(Rowwwwrrr!!) OF the Golden age.. but a great choice as Mrs. Bell. Alas the script don't explain How she was able to read lips and speak so well as a deaf person. Maybe the History Guy knows.
nice they gave credit to his birthplace. but Brantford in Canada. is his home town. silver dart his aircraft then his power boat.. was not a one hit inventor. unlike Edison he did not steal others ideas.
Enjoyed this. The hard work he put himself through to succeed and then having to prove that it was his invention. Not many people will do that but this was a truly remarkable man who just wanted the world to have something that could improve their lives.
This is a horrible print of the movie. For some reason, the normal aspect ratio (4:3 or 1.33) was squeezed inward from the sides and everything is distorted. You can even see that as they masked each side of the picture. Excellent movie if you can find a copy that isn't all f'd up.
Great movie and Don Ameche play the part very well and believable. This movie and many others like it should be shown the children of our country so they know invented the telephone which led to the cell phone.
Thanks so much for the upload. Loved every minute of it, esp. because it was reportedly extremely true to the historical facts, which makes you feel like you are witnessing the actual development of and battle for the telephone. Ameche was superb (a bit of Jimmy Stewart in his voice and acting style). He also looked and acted exactly as he did 32 years later as the lawyer in Columbo's "Suitable for Framing." The minute I saw "Mr. Sanders" I recognized the face from somewhere but couldn't ID it, until I saw on IMDB that he was the mayor in "The Inspector General." Finally, when Alex is introduced to Mabel and her three sisters at 13:00, I was amazed at how they found actresses who really looked like her sisters. It turns out that all three were indeed Loretta Young's sisters in real life.
@Augustus Antonius I am aware of this. Indeed, the US Congress officially recognized Meucci as the true founder of the telephone (www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jun/17/humanities.internationaleducationnews). I was merely referring to Bell's invention development process, his family life and the role of his students, which they reportedly followed quite accurately. He was obviously a very talented inventor, who also invented other important technological inventions, even if he did base his initial telephone idea on something he saw on paper from Meucci. Plus, you can't depict something whose facts we don't know about.
oh man if I ever hear someone say "don't tell me you have a bird's appetite" I'm gonna grab another cookie like Watson did and say "yes ma'am, a vulture's" haha. That is classic right there.
